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The Tigre language of Ginda Eritrea

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In The Tigre Language of Gindaˁ, Eritrea , David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language that is spoken in the town of Gindaˁ in eastern Eritrea. While the language of Tigre is spoken by perhaps one million people in Eritrea and Sudan, the population of Gindaˁ is fewer than 50,000 people. Elias describes basic aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicography. In contrast to other dialects of Tigre, of which approximately a dozen have been identified, Tigre of Gindaˁ exhibits the only recorded examples in Tigre of gender-specific first person possessives, e.g. ʕənye ‘my eye’ (masc) vs. ʕənče ‘my eye’ (masc/fem), and a new form of the negative of the verb of existence, yahallanni ‘there is not’. Contact with Arabic and Tigrinya has resulted in numerous loanwords and a few biforms in Tigre of Gindaˁ.

Title The Tigre language of Ginda Eritrea : short grammar and texts / by David L. Elias.
Publisher Leiden, Netherlands : Brill
Creation Date 2014
Notes Thesis (Ph. D., Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)--Harvard University, 2005.
Originally published as "Tigre of Habab : short grammar and texts from the Rigbat people".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Preliminary Material / David L. Elias -- 1 Introduction / David L. Elias -- 2 Phonology / David L. Elias -- 3 Morphology—Pronouns, Nouns, and Adjectives / David L. Elias -- 4 Morphology—Verbs / David L. Elias -- 5 Morphology—Adverbs, Prepositions, and Conjunctions / David L. Elias -- 6 Syntax / David L. Elias -- 7 Lexicography and Language Contact / David L. Elias -- Appendices / David L. Elias -- Bibliography / David L. Elias -- Subject Index / David L. Elias.
Series Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 0081-8461
Volume 75
Extent 1 online resource (302 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997010711122805171
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